The Forrest City times., 1887-12-31

JENNY LIND gave ninety-fve con- serts in ths country. aud tho aggregate receipts were SIP. 16i S4.
 
 A DETROIT man has an Anarchist dog that howls night and day. and has carried of and hid every rope where ~ith he was to be hanged.
 A PROUD father in Duquesnse, Penn. has named his first son Thomas Benton schuatterly Boyle Cleveland Genius of Liberty Flemming.
 NEW YORK umbrellas must be ex- pensive. A lady has sued New York merchant for s20. 900 damages because he accused her of stealing one.
 MRs. ANNIE ToMLIS, of Morristown, N. J.. lately received in letter a S20 bill from servant girl who had stolen that amour; nineteen years before.
 A CHIcAGo physician has a collec- ton of several hundred bullets which he extracted from the bodies of Union soldiers who were shot during the war.
 THE latest craze among the girls is a bair album. made up of locks from the heads of their gentlemen friends This is another thrust al the bsld-headed man.
 THE patchwork quilt presented to Jenny Lind by the children of the United States was buried with her re- mains. in accordance with her oft-ex- pressed desire.
 THE building for the Ramona Indian Girls School at Santa Fe, N. M, com memorating Helen Hunt Jackson, will cost S30. GOO. being arranged to accom- modate 150 pupils.
 AN Arctic owl was captured near Fish Point, Maine, few days ago and measured about six feet from tip to tip. These are rare birds in that vicinity, and especially at this season of the year.
 CouNTERFEIr postal-cards have been discovered in Pittsburg which are so skillfully executed that their detec- ton is very difficult. This is the first attempt to put spurious postal-cards in circulation.
 MRs. JOHNSON NEWMAN, living near Jaspar, Texas, heard the dogs barking near, her house and discovered that they were holding a large deer at bay in fence-corner. She got an ax and killed the deer.
 THE Grand Rabbi of India won first prize at the Rothschild wedding in Paris recently for the greatest show in diamonds. His exhibit was worn in his turban, and was valued at quar- ter of million.
 ARCHBISHOP Hess. of Milwaukee, says that of the eight million Roman Catholics of the United States three millions are German. Of the eleven Archbishops and sixty Bishops only one Archbishop. Dr. Heiss himself, and eleven Bishops are German.
 SOME quick-witted genius, sizing up the crying want of Los Angeles. has shipped from Chicago consignment of yl.. ..., l framed and painted, and all they re- quire is some carpenter to set them up, when they are ready for occupancy.
 THE ctAess Consul of the Unit d States in continuous service is Mir. Horatio J. Sprague, who was appointed to the consulate at Gibraltar in 1Si6. forty one years ago He seems to be a fixture. but his office is apparently not sinecure. for his salary is only Sl, 300 year.
 TIE scheme of building tower for the Paris Exposition one thousand feet high is likely to fall through. it be- ing found impossible to obtain mech anics and laborers to work at such height. It is said that the yirbations would Involve ser ous mechanical diff , entities.
 ON his whaling cruise just ended Capain Bauldry. of the steam whaler Orea, San Francisco. killed thirty five whales, slowed twenty-eght (all he had room forl and brought into port 2. 800 barrels of oil and 4S,000 pounds of bone-the largest catch on record and valued at about S266, SS0. :. In the first year of the existence oi the French divorce law 1,240 divorces were granted in France. It must be understood though. that in many eases it was a transformation of decrees of separation into those of divorce. The last twelve months produced ASS Pari- l sans divorced. the most being in the rich quarters.
 Has. FRANK SEACoY is a Nevada widow, who owns a farm on which there is well. The other day she had the well cleaned. In the gravel that was taken out the chickens found piece of gold the ze of q bean. Mrs. ,Seaeoy afterward found 1t in the crop of chicken. located mine. and now asks big price for her hitherto modest property.
 CLAUS SFKEcKELs is travelling about Californta ,nal,nn an..rerts L., his